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Re: Character folding in the pretest
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Clément Pit--Claudel |
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Re: Character folding in the pretest |
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Wed, 3 Feb 2016 13:24:41 -0500 |
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Amusingly, the tagline for Emacs Starter Kit is “Because the Emacs defaults are
not so great sometimes.”
On 02/03/2016 11:46 AM, Clément Pit--Claudel wrote:
> On 02/03/2016 11:24 AM, Drew Adams wrote:
>> Thinking first about defaults or DWIM is wrong, IMO. We
>> should think first about how users can change the behavior,
>> including on the fly.
>
> I don't agree. This leads to Emacs being painful to use without large amounts
> of customization. Do many Emacs devs use an empty or almost empty .emacs?
> Customizability is a strength, but the popularity of pre-packaged Emacs
> configurations (prelude, Emacs starter kit, Graphene, and countless .emacs.d
> repositories) says something about good defaults.
>
> Clément.
>
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